Dein Suchergebnis zum Thema: Caspar David Friedrich

Copy after Hugo van der Goes – The Adoration of the Magi – The Metropolitan Museum of Art

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436523

This composition, in which half-length figures of the three magi are viewed behind a fictive arcade, offering their gifts to the Christ Child—an event celebrated in the Church as the Feast of Epiphany (January 6)—conforms to the rising popularity in the Netherlands for close-up devotional paintings that put the viewer in a direct relationship with the event depicted
As such, Caspar, Balthasar, and Melchior became the patrons and protectors of travelers

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Jan van Eyck – The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment – The Metropolitan Museum of Art

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436282

The Artist: For a biography of Jan van Eyck, see the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History.The Paintings: In unusually tall, narrow paintings, the Crucifixion and Last Judgment emphasize the narrative features of these well-known biblical themes prophesied in Isaiah and related in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John for the Crucifixion, and in Deuteronomy and the Book of Revelation for the Last Judgment
[Friedrich] Winkler. „Forschungen.“

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